Niccolò Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in history and said to have influenced no lesser lights than Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the Art of War is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history and theory of war in the West—and for readers of The Prince and Discourse on Livy who seek to explore more fully the connection between war and politics in Machiavelli's thought. Machiavelli scholar Christopher Lynch offers a sensitive and entirely new translation of the Art of War, faithful to the original but rendered in modern, idiomatic English. Lynch's fluid translation helps readers appreciate anew Machiavelli's brilliant treatments of the relationships between war and politics, civilians and the military, and technology and tactics. Clearly laying out the fundamentals of military organization and strategy, Machiavelli marshals a veritable armory of precepts, prescriptions, and examples about such topics as how to motivate your soldiers and demoralize the enemy's, avoid ambushes, and gain the tactical and strategic advantage in countless circumstances. To help readers better appreciate the Art of War, Lynch provides an insightful introduction that covers its historical and political context, sources, influence, and contemporary relevance. He also includes a substantial interpretive essay discussing the military, political, and philosophical aspects of the work, as well as maps, an index of names, and a glossary.

Art of War

History

Christopher Lynch

Niccolò, Machiavelli

Military

University of Chicago Press

As Chicago grew into a metropolitan area during the 1800s and 1900s, and as air travel developed along with rail travel, the city's main airport, Municipal Airport, located on the city's South Side along Cicero Avenue, eventually became known as Midway Airport. With the advent of jet travel by 1960, Chicago expanded O'Hare Airport, named for Edward Butch O'Hare, a naval aviator, first dedicated in 1949. This airport had long enough runways that could handle the jet airplane traffic. This new book, which will include in its 200+ pages more than 200 black and white photographs along with a variety of interviews with a cross section of people, will tell the story about air travel into and out of Chicago over the past ninety years, and is the first publication to provide many of these rare photos. A major part of the photo collection provided in this book includes negatives recently discovered in an attic that were taken by Mike Rotunno, a well known photographer who spent much time from the 1930s until the 1960s photographing famous people arriving in the city. These stunning images have not been seen in many years. In addition the book includes a collection of rare autographed photos of the famous people who traveled through Midway Airport from Amelia Earhart to J. Edgar Hoover, Will Rogers, the Three Stooges, and Cary Grant. These signatures were collected by a teenager named Johnny Latoza, who sold newspapers at the airport in the 1930s, and whose charm and persistence always got the stars to sign this book. In addition, this new volume includes stunning photographs by United Airlines which document the construction of O'Hare Airport as well as the new terminal built by United in 1980s. Overall, there has never been a book quite like Now Arriving ever done about air travel into and out of the metropolis of Chicago. From trails to rails, sails to wings, Chicago has been the crossroads of America and the world, and this book documents the city's continued importance to not only this region as a vital transportation hub, but to the world.

Now Arriving: Traveling To And From Chicago By Air,90 Years of Flight

Neal Samors

Chicago's Books Press

Fans of “The Americans” TV series on the FX Network will recognize elements of the show in The CI Desk, Chris Lynch’s account of his thirty years as a counterintelligence analyst at the FBI and CIA. “The Americans” creator Joe Weisberg discovered the now-popular “character,” the “FBI mail robot,” within The CI Desk’s pages, and hired Chris Lynch to be a consultant for the show. Since then, the Writers Guild of America and Peabody Award-winning writers of the show have extracted anecdotes, descriptions, and terms from The CI Desk for episodes of “The Americans,” including “The Bureau does not feel,” “munchkins,” and Lynch’s own experience of being suddenly and inexplicably summoned to the Director’s office. According to Kim Chamberlain of EspionageMagazine.com, “this book lends the personality, depth, and reality to the day-to-day intelligence that seems to be lacking in other works. With a razor-sharp wit, a keen eye for human nature, and a wry sense of humor, The CI Desk is in turn hilarious and saddening. There are some nail-biter moments here (and) a seemingly endless procession of fascinating characters,” including moles (such as FBI agent Robert P. Hansson, Lynch’s supervisor for two years), mole hunters, penetrations of hostile services, defectors, agent handlers, and the unsung people at headquarters desks in FBI and CIA operations that spanned the globe. The C.I. Desk shows the routine, the thrilling, and the sometimes funny or tragic human side of the counterintelligence work of the FBI and CIA.

The C.I. Desk: FBI and CIA Counterintelligence as Seen from My Cubicle

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Dog Ear Publishing

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